Map of French
no go zones. These are towns, cities, and hamlets
that French police and the military have ceded control to Muslim rule.
In this post I would like to ponder the apparent dying of Europe and what God might be teaching us. I would first
like to present some information and then reflect as to what God might be
teaching us. (The writer is a Roman Catholic high
Priest)
We have pondered before on this blog that
Christian Europe as we have known it is slowly dying away. The Pope has
remarked that the lights are going out in Europe.
The Christian faith has largely been forsaken by
Europeans (only about 10% go to Mass and in many places over 60% describe themselves
as atheists). Birth rates have plummeted to death-wish levels, and Europeans
are slowly being replaced by Muslim immigrants who have a much higher birth
rate. It is unlikely there will be any huge
war that will usher in a Muslim Europe, just a slow and seemingly inexorable
replacement as Europeans die out and Muslims from North
Africa and other areas replace them.
There is already some evidence of Europe slowly giving way to its new identity as enclaves of Muslims
become increasingly insistent on replacing European Law with Shariah based law and observance. Slowly these
enclaves are growing. They have met some resistance to be sure, but their
growth is undeniable. (See the map of France at the upper right. The
darker shades of purple indicate a larger numbers of Muslim
enclaves or “no-go” areas discussed below).
There is an increasingly common thing in
European cities often referred to as the “no-go zone or area.” They are Muslim sections
of towns where the police, medical rescue crews, and other government agents
will not venture. Some of these areas are “governed” by Muslim gangs. The areas
are viewed as just too violent and/or risky to enforce laws. Other areas or
zones have enacted Sharia Law, and community leaders enforce it. Local government
officials are discouraged from, or no longer attempt to enter these “no-go
zones” even to put out fires, enforce law or make infrastructure repairs for
they are unwelcome and often meet with resistance and violence. In effect the
no-go zones become a microstate.
In France no-go zones are referred to
as Zones UrbainesSensibles
(Sensitive Urban Zones). Approximately 12 percent of all French in France live in
a Sensitive Urban Zones. Many of the zones are governed under Islamic Sharia
law and Islamic militants strongly resist any presence of the French police.
The rest of Europe
is going down a similar path. England, for example, is struggling with many immigrants who
insist on living under non-English Law. All this means that political
unity is threatened. Europe, with a
dying population and hostile minority groups, faces a bleak future. It seems
clear that Europe is simply being replaced. [1,2,
3,4]
Now, to be sure, there are some who
dispute this picture and insist it isn’t that bad. But, even if the
seriousness of the current situation is disputed, the trajectory seems rather
clear, and Europe’s future as increasingly
Muslim is hard to deny.
It will surely be harder for the Church
as well since religious tolerance is not widely appreciated in the Muslim
world. Much will depend on how radical the brand of Islam that sets up will be.
If Sharia is largely insisted upon and enforced things could get very
difficult.
Sharia Law is the religious law of Islam.
(Islamic Law is
far from being a set of religious laws, codes, or covenants. – Sharia Law specifically
seeks to usurp and overthrow non-Muslim nations and governments as well as to prey
upon and ensnare their peoples. Without this understanding of Muslimism and Sharia
Law all of Europe will be swallowed by Islam. Islam
is very much like communism, in its militant control and suppression of nations
and their populations. And its backwards, poverty-based
society and economy. In Northern Africa and
the Middle East being aflame with the overthrow of nation after nation – This is
the workmanship of Iran
(Via the Muslim Brotherhood) seeking to take out all Muslim dictators, democratic
and royal governments. To what end one might ask? Iran is seeking to recreate a
Caliphate, ruled by their Mullah’s. As far
as Biblical Prophecy and End Time Truth is concerned if successful this would be
a giant step towards the rise of the Antichrist and his one world government. As we have seen and heard of the Lord we have spoken
that Europe or the EU is not going to become the Revived Roman Empire with the Roman
Catholic Church and Pope in charge as has been popularly taught for generations
in Fundamentalist and Pentecostal circles. The origin of this doctrine more or less came from
the pages of Foxes Book of Martyrs. We will
conclude our comments here by declaring it is from Muslimism that the false prophet
and the antichrist shall arise. Islam is the forth beast of Daniel. Islam is one
of the a daughters of the great whore in the book of Revelation.
Islam is the bastard child of Talmudic
Judaism, and 6th century Roman Catholicism. Islam is the two-fold
child of hell Jesus prophesied of to the Pharisees. Ponder the Little Horn filled with eyes that boasts
of great things against God. This little horn will overthrow 3 horns – The overthrow of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or
Iraq would effectively give the little horn the caliphate it seeks and at that point
the other Middle Eastern nations would rollover and surrender making the little
horn the ruler over the 7 heads and 10 horns. We are not there yet, this is what
Christ prophesied a pang of the birthing of the false prophet and the beast. It
is a pang not the birth. The time for that is still not yet. But the workings toward
that evil day are all around us, it is no longer hidden or being done in secret.)
It comes from the Quran and also the known practices of the Prophet Muhammad.
All Muslims believe that Sharia is God’s law but they have many different
interpretations of it. It is not necessarily fair to simply condemn the wish
for it outright since not all Muslims hold to or wish to see enforced its more
odious components. Nevertheless, with Muslim extremism on the rise many rightly
fear its wider imposition throughout Europe.
Some of the more extreme tenets of Sharia include:
Jihad, is defined as “to war against non-Muslims to
establish the religion.” It is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of
state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia
and unfit to rule.
A Caliph
(head of state) is exempt from being charged with serious crimes such as
murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking and in some cases of rape.
A caliph
must be a Muslim, a non-slave and a male.
A Muslim
who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.
A Muslim
will be forgiven for murder of: 1) an apostate 2) an adulterer 3) a
highway robber. Vigilante street justice and honor killing is acceptable.
Sharia
dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs, flogging even
for crimes of sin such as adultery.
Non-Muslims
are not equal to Muslims under the law. They must comply to Islamic law if they are to remain safe. They are
forbidden to marry Muslim women….recite their scriptures or openly
celebrate their religious holidays or funerals.
A
non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.
Banks must
be Sharia compliant and interest is not allowed.
Homosexuality
is punishable by death.
There is
no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract can take place
anytime after birth and can be consummated at age 8 or 9.
Rebelliousness
on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her,
gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.
Divorce is
only in the hands of the husband.
A man has
the right to have up to 4 wives and none of them have a right to divorce
him.
The
testimony of a woman in court is half the value of a man.
To prove
rape, a woman must have 4 male witnesses.
A rapist
may only be required to pay the bride-money (dowry) without marrying the
rape victim.
A Muslim
woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered “Awrah,” a sexual organ. Not all Sharia schools allow
the face of a woman exposed.
It is
obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is abiding with Islam’s
commandments, such as jihad, a Muslim is obliged to lie and should not
have any feelings of guilt or shame associated with this kind of lying.
The points
are from Nonie Darwish in “Cruel and
Usual Punishment; The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law”
Again, not every Muslim seeks to impose
or enforce all of this. But, who is to say what will actually come to
be when such a sweeping law is increasingly imposed in Europe?
Who will limit the extremists? It is currently a very dangerous scenario that
enclaves (no-go areas) are springing up on their own. Without any central
authority or constitution to oversee the whole, “justice” comes down to what
the local sheriff (er… Caliph) says. No one can
really say that the most extreme forms of Sharia will not become the law in the
“wild west” that Europe may become.
Can’t happen here? In the United States,
the dynamics are very different and Christians are not simply being replaced.
However, there are already some attempts at insisting on Sharia zones in places
like Baltimore, and Detroit. There are also increasing demands
for “Sharia Compliant” banks, legal practices and the like. Yes, it may happen
here but not likely in the way Europe is
going. [5]
Some soul-searching.
What must we learn? – It is easy to lament where things may be
headed. Indeed there are likely difficult days ahead. But we cannot miss the
painful lesson that Europe shows forth, and to some extent America and the
whole western world experiences.
First, Europe
has lost the source of its strength. It simply does not pertain to
strong, unified and cohesive cultures to simply be replaced. Obviously the
West, especially Europe, has lost its
strength. How has this happened? Europe’s
fate was sealed long ago when the faith was largely abandoned and Europeans, as
most of the West, set on a path of contracepting and
aborting themselves right out of
existence. Further, in the western world, as natural law and biblical
morality have been largely set aside a cascade of deleterious effects have set
in: Abortion, divorce, fornication, STDs, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, violence,
broken families, poorly raised children, immodesty, pornography, sexual abuse,
materialism, greed, individualism, relativism, egotism, and a whole plethora of
crude, base and just plain bad behavior. All of this has dramatically weakened
Western Culture.
Second, no culture can survive without
something higher and outside itself to unite it. The word culture has
at its root the word cultus. This is the
Latin word for a religious system of beliefs and practices (and not the
pejorative sense of “cult” that has come into English). Cultus
is the totality of religious practice and
observance, the neglect of which is a very dangerous thing.
Clearly in the West, there has been a misguided
experiment to see if we could take the “Cultus”
out of Culture, and still have culture. It is clear we cannot. Without a
unifying set of beliefs and understandings that set forth our priorities, moral
vision, and ultimate values and goals, we are doomed.
As God was kicked to the curb, first in the
academy during the “enlightenment” and then by successive stages in the wider populace, our fate was sealed. The
center cannot hold without the cultus, which
is the religious and transcendent basis of culture. A culture must have
something outside and above it to knit it together. The Lord says,
My people have committed two sins: They have
forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug
their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Is Israel a slave
by birth? Why then has he become plunder?… Have you
not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you
in the way? (Jer 2:13,14,17)
Here in America we have struggled in
similar ways. We are still far more religious than Europe,
but rampant secularism threatens us as does the setting aside of Biblical
morality and Natural Law. We are on a path similar to Europe
and very foolish to stay on it.
Tragic Loss – Europe
does not even have the dignity of being conquered by an Army. At least
then it could go down fighting. No indeed, it is simply fading away by a
kind of suicidal death-wish. Despite years of warnings the birth rate continues
to drop. The lights are indeed going out in Europe.
And it is a tragic loss, for Europe has a
great intellectual, artistic and cultural legacy. I cannot claim the mantle of
prophet, but barring a miracle, Europe as we
knew it is passing away.
The Question we cannot fail to ask – It
is one thing to lament the possible coming of a tough, intolerant form of
Sharia. It ought to be resisted. Religious Liberty is strongly threatened by a
radical form of Islam which may ascend from Europe’s
ashes. But we cannot fail to ask, How did we get here?
What can we in America
and the rest of the West learn? What is God saying to us?
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I am not entirely sure I like the tone of this
video. But it does help paint a picture of what is going on in France and Europe.